Государственное информационное агентство "Рес"

Prime Minister of South Ossetia Rostik Khugaev held a meeting with the Director General of the Limited Company "EnergostroyServis" of the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania Peter Kochiev and with Chief Engineer of the Limited Company "EnergoService" of Kabardino-Balkaria Republic Akhmet Kanukov. The meeting was also attended by Minister for Economic Development of South Ossetia Zalina Khugati.

July 18, the co-chairmen of the Geneva discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia are expected to arrive in South Ossetia. In Tskhinval the spokesmen of the European Union (Philippe Lefort), OSCE (Podrig Murphy) and the UN (Antti Turunen) will meet with members of the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva discussions.

Tomorrow, July 17, a soloist of the Bolshoi, Mariinsky and Novosibirsky Theatres, the world opera star Veronica Dzhioeva will give a solo concert in the capital of South Ossetia -Tskhinval.
As reported to IA "Res" by one of the organizers of the concert, a stage director Tamerlan Dzutstsev, it will be a charity concert,its program will include arias from operas by Russian and foreign composers.

Professional boxer from South Ossetia Murat Gassiev will hold his next rating fight on July24.
This has been said IA "Res" by a coach of the athlete Vitaly Slanov.
"Our athlete will fight a six-round bout with the Croatian boxer Lubomir Lyubochich. The fight will take place in Montenegro. Currently Gassiev is training in Moscow "- said Slanov.

South Ossetian fighter Inal Tasoev will take part in the World Championship in freestyle wrestling among the youths born in 1995-1996.
This has been said IA "Res" by a coach of the athlete Tamerlan Kochiev.
"The competition will start on August 17 in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. Our athlete will perform in the weight class up to 85 kg. Currently, he is intensively training for the tournament in Tskhinval. On August 3 we will continue training at the training camp in Adler, and from there we`ll go to the World Championship "- said Kochiev.

A well-known Ossetian professional boxer Aslanbek Kozaev within the next few days will resume his training after undergoing surgery.
This has been said IA "Res" by the coach of the athlete Vitaly Slanov.

The leadership of South Ossetia and the Russian delegation headed by Deputy Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Volosov, arrived in the Republic to celebrate the 20th anniversary of entering the Russian peacekeeping contingent, visited the Ossetian yard in the village of Khetagurovo (Tskhinval district of South Ossetia). During the visit, the guests were showed the Ossetian life, customs and traditions. South Ossetian art groups performed the Ossetian folk songs and dances.

An extraordinary meeting of the Mechanisms on Prevention and Reaction to Incidents (MPRI) is being held in the Georgian village of Zardiantkari, which is located at the border with South Ossetia.

Celebrations, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the entry of the Russian peacekeepers in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict - the Day of Peacemaker- will be held today in South Ossetia.
A solemn meeting of the public representatives -"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God"- will be held in the capital of the republic.

Flash-poll: July 14, South Ossetia will celebrate the 20th anniversary of entering the Joint Peacekeeping Forces into the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. What is the role of peacekeepers in protecting the population of South Ossetia?

Boris Chochiev, former co-chair of the Joint Control Commission on the South Ossetian side:
The format of the peacekeeping operation, which was being conducted in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict from 1992 to 2008, is unique in the world. For the first time in the history of peacekeeping operations, it involved not only the Russian Federation as the chief mediator and guarantor of peace, but also the peacekeepers, representing the parties, involved in the conflict. During the period from the date of the peacekeepers entry until the ultra radical nationalist and fascist Saakashvili came to power in Georgia in 2004, no one peacekeeper was killed.